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Ep. 1046: John Abramson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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John Abramson
John Abramson

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My guest today is Dr. John Abramson. He has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years, where he teaches health care policy. He also served as a family physician for 22 years, during which he was named a “top doctor” six times in local, state, and national surveys. He served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice, including in a case that resulted in the largest criminal fine in U.S. history.

The topic is COVID-19.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • COVID-19 Vaccinations and Pharmaceutical Industry
  • American Healthcare
  • COVID-19 Vaccines and Booster Shot
  • Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated People

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“In my work the skill of storytelling gives an edge, and I’m confident in that area…”

Posted on by Michael Covel

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Mr. Covel, Thank you. I am a 24 yo guy from Norway, a financial advisor at a regional savings bank, and a soon to be trend follower. It’s taken me about two years of listening to your podcast for me to understand trend following. I must also add that reading “Thinking fast and slow” alongside listening to your podcast made it easier for me to eventually kill my obsession with explaining every move in the market. As if knowing why something happen after the fact gives some value to anything other than my own ego. “Statoil” (Norways largest gov. owned company) is down to day – it must be because the price of oil dropped, because the Arabs walked out of the meeting, because the Russians made an insult”…

I came across your podcast in Barry Ritholtz’s MiB and figured it’d benefit my thoughprocess regarding my work and private investing to have a source of completely different mindset to balance out the knowledge I take in. Free of charge from the internet mind you! No crazy school fees.

In my work the skill of storytelling gives an edge, and I’m confident in that area. It kills me to tell the story of buy and hold though. To make it even worse it’s part I do best because I’m really interested in the markets. What I’ve learned in investing is that you may fall short to your own skill of persuasion and stick by your trade for whatever stupid reason. I’ve now understood the meaning of price as the one factor to follow and not the report of some fairy tale telling fundamentalistic analyst.

I’d like to trade futures and find it a bit tricky to take the leap as this type as trading is unfamiliar to me. By now you probably understand that the investing I’ve done so far is passive indexes and common stocks.

Do you know of any quality blogs or such that focuses on a beginners guide to futures trading?

Yes, it would only take me about 5 minutes on google to find any number of articles or YouTube videos on futures, but I thought I’d let you know that your podcast really triggers me to follow my dream and make money in the markets. By now I should probably do the same as when I first heard you on MiB and find something else to listen to as well, as your podcast has completely taken over my playlist.

Sincerely,
[Name]
(I’d really like you not to mention my name, just in case)

1. The CME education website.

2. Stop the storytelling edge fantasy.

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Ep. 1045: Hold Forever with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Hold Forever with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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“Love it. 5 stars…”

Posted on by Michael Covel

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Good Morning Mike,

I bought your book, Trend Commandments – from audible. Love it. 5 stars. It changed my thinking on trading and life.

I am 56, and all my life have not been a trend follower. When I graduated from high school, all my friends went to work in the coal mines in my region. I became a professional chef.

My friends bought Camero’s, Corvettes, and Mustangs, I bought a Porsche.

I have felt like I have been fighting the system all my life. When I owned an IT company, I was usually ahead of [the] trend by a large margin, a leader not a trend follower. But I didn’t understand how to be a category leader (something i picked up from a very interesting recent podcast of yours), and well… long story short, I got wiped out in March of 2000. A complete financial reset in my mid 40’s. I lost everything, my business, many friends, all my investments, my properties… everything. I apparently didn’t understand risk management either. I was all in, 100% committed to my business venture. So that was interesting. I have been looking for something that inspired me and filled me with passion. I found trading. I have put huge effort into learning the art and skill of trading. I figure it’s like pro golf, if you want to be good, you need to practice your ass off.

I started trading about 9 months ago, love it. Only demo accounts mind you. I will be going live sometime very soon. Trend following just makes sense. I work full time plus, so don’t have time to babysit a screen all day. I would love to receive a free audible book of yours, one of the turtle trader books would be awesome. I don’t use iTunes or and own iPhone or any apple device. Not an apple trend follower typically. Only have a Samsung Android and I use podcast addict and have no idea how to write a review on that app, for your podcasts, in fact I don’t think you can. So sorry no screen shot.

Keep up the good work. And enjoy Saigon. Be Safe.

I don’t have free books, but they are all on Amazon. Best of luck!

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The Milton Friedman Feedback…

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Hi, I wanted to congratulate you for the good idea of playing some interview of Milton Friedman on your recent podcast. Enlightening! It is crazy how he remains modern and refreshing, and mostly of course smart even to this day! Would love to hear more of Mr. Milton Friedman, so don’t hesitate to do a nb 2 session on Friedman podcast!

Congrats for the good podcast.

[Name]

Thanks!

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Ep. 1044: Holly Ann Burns Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Holly Ann Burns
Holly Ann Burns

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My guest today is Holly Ann Burns. She is an artist, designer and author, who happens to also be the wife of my long time guest Steve Burns. Steve and I were engaged in an ongoing conversation about Web 3.0. He recommended a good teacher–his wife. He was right.

The topic is NFT.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Non-fungible token
  • Web 3.0
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Amazon Books
  • Buying an NFT
  • Play To Earn Games
  • The Metaverse World

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“My hope is for one day to be a consistent profitable trend following trader…”

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Dear Michael, Firstly, I would like to give you my sincerest thanks for all the incredible podcasts that you offer for free for learning purposes. The amount of information that you have gathered from amazing minds is unbelievable, wish I would have had known about it before I started trading. My name is [Name], I am a Spanish national who has lived abroad in Germany, the Netherlands and Singapore. I am currently studying a Masters in Finance in Rotterdam. I first got into trading 3 years ago when a friend, who had been trading since he was 12 (with help from his father), showed me the markets, candlestick charts, moving averages and all that jazz. I became completely hooked instantly, nothing seemed as exciting as trading. Of course at the beginning I was focused on getting rich fast, which looking back was very naïve. Luckily my friend had advised me to start with very little funds since it was very likely that I would lose them fast. Surely enough I blew my first 2 accounts. This left me very frustrated and incredibly disappointed, I had been used to always doing well at everything I tried and I thought that my experience with trading would be similar. Needless to say, trading has been very tough and hasn’t rewarded me financially yet. After having listened to most of your podcasts, and followed the work of some great trend following traders I am gaining the confidence to start trading an account again. I am trying to make my trading as systematic as possible but still have some areas that I am having trouble with. I am guessing that you receive a lot of email and most likely don’t have time to go through it all, but if you did read this just know that I appreciated your work greatly. My hope is for one day to be a consistent profitable trend following trader and have the honor to be a guest in one of your podcasts. Finally, I would just want to go for a long shot and ask whether you need help with anything at all, I am a very ambitious and resourceful student that would be living his dream being able to work or even just chat with someone as distinguished as you.

Yours sincerely,
[Name]

Thanks!

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.